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Russia has made no contact with representatives of likely US President-elect Joe Biden, and has no plans to get in touch.
Earlier this week, the Kremlin announced it was holding off on congratulations until official confirmation. Speaking to news agency TASS, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov explained that Moscow has a low opinion of the Democratic candidate, after Russia was accused by his party of influencing the US election in 2016.
“We have not had any contacts with representatives and staff of Joseph Biden,” he said. “We treat this as a change in weather outside the window.”
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Update: Russia has mixed feelings about Biden (Asia Times)
WNU Editor: Unlike President-elect Trump's contacts with Russia through Michael Flynn during his transition in 2016, no one in Russia expects the same type of willingness to better ties to occur with a Biden administration. In a certain way everyone expects a re-set back to before the 2016 US Presidential election. But there are a number of policy issues that the Kremlin does agree with Joe Biden. Lessening tensions with China, Cuba, and Venezuela. The Biden administration's commitment to put restrictions on America's energy industry and to transition away from fossil fuels to meet climate goals .... a huge win for Russia's oil industry and OPEC. And a freeze on the Pentagon's budget.
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